AfBo: A world-wide survey of affix borrowing

Arabic affixes in Indonesian

Summary

Affix function

number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information and examples are from Jones (1984), Verhaar (1984), Tadmor (2009) and personal communications from Uri Tadmor. Jones (1984: 12–17) discusses loanwords and some “Arabic phrases and bound morphemes; Arabic grammar”, but it is unclear whether these are used with native Indonesian stems. According to Uri Tadmor (personal communication), only one affix from Arabic is attested with non‑Arabic stems.